Assimilation of synthetic GOES-R ABI infrared brightness temperatures and WSR-88D radar observations in a high-resolution OSSE

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3159-3180

  Cintineo, Rebecca M ^a   Otkin, Jason A ^a   Jones, Thomas A ^a,b   Koch, Steven ^b   Stensrud, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Forecasting; Models and modeling; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Observational techniques and algorithms; Radars Radar observations; Satellite observations; Sensitivity studies; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DOPPLER RADAR; FORECASTING; LUMINANCE; REFLECTION; SPACE-BASED RADAR; STORMS; SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SHORT-RANGE PREDICTIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; GOES; INFRARED IMAGERY; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84986325568     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0366.1     Document Type: Article

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